What is the meaning of a shoe of Bodhidharma?VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.

The image of Bodhidharma has 3 different images, each one has its own idea.

Want to learn about Bodhidharma, you must understand your whole life. According to Buddhist Zen history, he was a prince of the King of India. When Ngo Thien Tong, the Bat Nha Da La, was the 27th Zen Tong patriarch, he transmitted "Zen Buddhism Secret" to him and recognized him as the 28th generation organization, followed by Zen Buddhism.

In the epic poem of Buddha Shakyamuni who named him by name: it is the duty to lead Zen Buddhism to the East. Huyen signed this work, the 27th-century Zen Tong group submitted to King Bo De Anh Da the father of the Bodhidharma group.

When the Bodhidharma Patriarch was transmitted secretly, his father nominated him to receive 2 tasks:

1- The messenger: bringing all the Buddha's scriptures to teach the six disciplines of the East, to spread to the Orient.

2- It is tasked to transmit the meditation organization of the 29th generation to the Eastern people.

Let your mission complete. Therefore, the King helped him as follows:

- Give you the Dragon boat.

- To nominate 12 people, who used to be regular envoys to China to follow him, had the task of translating the entire Buddha's teaching, from Indian into Chinese, so that the Chinese could understand the words of Germany. Buddha taught.

Come here, who wants to understand the Patriarch:

- Throw a shoe.

- Throw one

- Take two bags.

It must be understood as follows: when Mr. Lu Hui Neng received the 33rd generation organization. When Hui Nang was 74 years old, he obeyed the Buddha's inscription in the legend that he had to publish the whole book of Huyen, for all anyone who wants to learn about enlightenment and liberation knows, then he must cultivate according to the method of "The Tathagata of Pure Meditation".

In order for many people to know the practice of the Dharma-like Tathagata meditation, what is the practice. The only way is to announce this practice to the public. This means the practice of Tathagata meditation is no longer a secret.

Because of that, the 33rd group of Zen Buddhism is no longer transmitted, so it ends the transmission of the Zen Buddhism secret from here.

The Sixth Patriarch Hui Nang taught his disciples: to remember the merit of the Bodhidharma, to bring the practice of the Tathagata of the Pure Land from India to China, the disciples each recreated the merit. of the team with a picture that says the merit, the person who participates in the picture must make a clear note of the picture he draws.

In this photo presentation ceremony, there were all 12 photos, 3 of which were judged to be of three people:

1- Mr. Phap Dat, drawing a picture of Bodhidharma bearing a burden with two sacks on both ends. The announcer is the burden of business from India to China.

2- Mr. Chi often draws a picture of him. The caption is that the group threw the sutra from India to China.

3- Mr.Gg Than, draw a picture of a statue wearing a shoe that is "the old homeland of the Patriarch" and annotated 8 sentences as follows: 
Zen Buddhism is "Most self-meditative"

Give the pure people to the old countryside. 
The Zen Buddhism Buddha taught in the past The 
only order from Nhat Tu and the old country immediately appeared.

The heart of an island should be crazy! 
Pray, day and night, crazy forever! 
Zen Tong Nhat meditates on his own time 
Putting the pure man back to his homeland.

These three images were handed down according to Zen Buddhism lines to this day.

So when we go to the Zen Palace, see one of the above three images or statues, we know that the temple thanked Bodhi Dat ma's nest at any angle. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.1/5/2019.